0 a path, road, or railway that forms very sharp bends from one direction to almost the opposite direction as it goes up and down steep slopes -- 之字形的路，急轉彎的路
These two sequences display a typical switchback topography, as if representing separate visual maps.
The fireplace is pivotal to the design, under the butterfly roof's nadir and the switchback ramp landing.
This must have been a difficult emotional switchback for any grandmother to ride, with the boys twice coming, getting closer to her, and then being removed.
Is it not a fact that many of our motorways resemble cobbled streets and dangerous switchbacks rather than major highways?
The road is like a switchback—it goes up and down and twists around.
They certainly have their fun fair side, with switchbacks, and so on; but they also have most excellent entertainment of a very different kind.
Other economies have had steady, remorseless growth; we have had the switchback of stop-go.
I do not know whether he had an elevated railway in mind, a switchback, up one hill and down another.
